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Four decades of peer-reviewed work.

A selection of Professor Akinnaso's most-cited articles and chapters. The full, continually-updated record is hosted on Google Scholar.

2,134

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Political Economy of LanguageLanguage PolicyBureaucratic CommunicationOrality and LiteracyNaming Practices

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Selected publications

On the differences between spoken and written language

F. N. Akinnaso · Language and Speech 25(2), 97–125 · 1982

432

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Policy and experiment in mother tongue literacy in Nigeria

F. N. Akinnaso · International Review of Education 39(4), 255–285 · 1993

217

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The sociolinguistic basis of Yoruba personal names

F. N. Akinnaso · Anthropological Linguistics 22(7), 275–304 · 1980

216

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Performance and ethnic style in job interviews

F. N. Akinnaso & C. S. Ajirotutu · Language and Social Identity, 119–144 · 1982

198

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Schooling, language, and knowledge in literate and nonliterate societies

F. N. Akinnaso · Comparative Studies in Society and History 34(1), 68–109 · 1992

139

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Toward the development of a multilingual language policy in Nigeria

F. N. Akinnaso · Applied Linguistics 12(1), 29–61 · 1991

124

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On the similarities between spoken and written language

F. N. Akinnaso · Language and Speech 28(4), 323–359 · 1985

117

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The consequences of literacy in pragmatic and theoretical perspectives

F. N. Akinnaso · Anthropology & Education Quarterly 12(3), 163–200 · 1981

114

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Linguistic unification and language rights

F. Niyi Akinnaso · Applied Linguistics 15(2), 139–168 · 1994

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One nation, four hundred languages: Unity and diversity in Nigeria's language policy

F. N. Akinnaso · Language Problems and Language Planning 13(2), 133–146 · 1989

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Names and naming principles in cross-cultural perspective

F. N. Akinnaso · Names 29(1), 37–63 · 1981

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Bourdieu and the diviner: Knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination

F. N. Akinnaso & W. James · The Pursuit of Certainty, 234–257 · 1995

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On the mother tongue education policy in Nigeria

F. N. Akinnaso · Educational Review 43(1), 89–106 · 1991

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Yoruba traditional names and the transmission of cultural knowledge

F. N. Akinnaso · Names 31(3), 139–158 · 1983

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